Sourcing & Materials
Every piece in the range passes the same bar before it earns a place. This page is that bar — how we read a fabric, how we read a make, and what is in the four categories.
How we read a fabric
Most decisions are made by hand and eye, against the same set of questions. A piece either answers them or it does not.
- Stretch recovery. Does the elastic come back after it has been worn, or does it stay stretched?
- Opacity. Does it stay opaque under real light, or does it disappear when you don't want it to?
- Hand. How it feels against skin — the difference between something you keep on and something you take off.
- Drape. Whether it hangs and moves, or sits stiff and clings.
- Breathability. Most of this range is built for heat and has to be wearable at noon. What we keep for the cooler months — wool, denim, a heavier weave — is judged the same way, in the hour it is actually for.
- Wash behaviour. Whether it survives ten washes still looking like the piece you bought.
How we read the make
Fabric is half of it. The other half is construction — and it is where cheap pieces give themselves away.
We look at seam placement and finish, at how closures are built (snap, hook, invisible), at whether a piece is lined and lined well. On straps we check width and adjustability. On bodysuits, the gusset. On a bag, the stitch at the strap root and the way the edge is sealed. Everywhere, the edge finish — the small tell that separates a considered piece from a fast one.
What's in the range
Four categories. Each one held to the lenses above.
- Clothing — dresses, shirts and blouses, tops, trousers, skirts and shorts, blazers. Cotton and linen where the day is hot, viscose for drape, wool and boiled wool when the evening turns, denim and faux leather where a piece needs structure, a little elastane where it needs to come back to shape. Weight decides: whether a piece holds a line or drops a drape, and which it is meant to do.
- Body — bodysuits, mostly polyamide and elastane, some in viscose or cotton blends. The piece lives against the skin all day, so three things decide it: stretch recovery, opacity, and the gusset.
- The Sea — swimwear in polyamide and elastane, some recycled polyamide, some polyester, lined where it should be. Judged on recovery, opacity, and how it holds up to salt, sun and rinsing.
- Accessories — bags and totes. Italian cow leather and Italian suede, where hand and finish carry the piece; some in polyurethane or fabric, cut for weight and shape. We name which is which on every piece and don't blur the line between them.
Composition and care
The composition of a piece and the care it wants sit on its product page. Care guidance follows the fibre, not habit: what actually keeps elastane alive, what keeps linen from going grey, what leather wants after a day at the sea.
We don't put a badge on a piece it hasn't earned. The claims we make are the ones we can stand behind — the fabric, the make, and the hour it is for.
Almost nothing. Almost everything. Held to the same bar, in all four categories.